Combining Bagging, Boosting and Dagging for Classification Problems

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Bagging, boosting and dagging are well known re-sampling ensemble methods that generate and combine a diversity of classifiers using the same learning algorithm for the base-classifiers. Boosting algorithms are considered stronger than bagging and dagging on noise-free data. However, there are strong empirical indications that bagging and dagging are much more robust than boosting in noisy settings. For this reason, in this work we built an ensemble using a voting methodology of bagging, boosting and dagging ensembles with 8 sub-classifiers in each one. We performed a comparison with simple bagging, boosting and dagging ensembles with 25 sub-classifiers, as well as other well known combining methods, on standard benchmark datasets and the proposed technique had better accuracy in most cases.KeywordsMachine learningdata miningensembles of classifiers